Every January since 1988, World Wrestling Entertainment holds it's annual Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View. It is usually seen as the first step of the new year towards Wrestlemania in March or April. The event is always capped off by a thirty-man battle royal to determine who will headline that Wrestlemania. Usually that person goes on to win at the grandest stage of the year and enter the ranks of legendary, thus this event is important.